Posted on 01/01/2009 8:10:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
DC is 10 x the cesspool Detroit is.
That looks exactly like what a post-apocalyptic world would look like.
This is just mass psychosis...just absolute insanity.
Det-riot will never have even adequate leadership or political structures, the thing “we” are missing is the idea behind Det-riot is they want it to be the way it is.
The riots in late 60’s, the “white flight”, these were designed to create a “Chocolate Town” if I can borrow Ray Nagin’s phrase.
Background:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/13_detroit.html
“”This is a racial incident... it represents one simple thing: black people want control of black communities.”
—Rev. Albert Cleage, Detroit religious leader
“It’s easy and safe to blame the teachers. What about the students? People are to afraid to even mention them.”
I believe I said it is a multi dimensional problem. But are you excusing teachers from culpability in any of this? Of course students are a big problem. They are a problem because there is no structure in their lives. No basis upon which to build any perspective of right from wrong. That comes from people who are either physically or mentally still kids, having kids, and wanting and getting nanny state micromanagement of parenthood so they don’t have to do it. The rest of us who let it happen are just as guilty. These kids are thus perfect fodder for bad teachers and bad government to indoctrinate them with liberalism, and the problem becomes self perpetuating. Many parents don’t care, or wear blinders, or do what they have to do to get their own kids out of this harmful system. Of course, that’s where home schoolers and voucher support comes in, but teachers unions and teachers who drink liberal cool aid are against that.
It is a problem of liberal society, and teachers are definitely part of the problem. I don’t claim their the whole problem.
And DC is the ONLY American City under the complete control of the US Congress...
I just spent a few moments looking at the google road views in Detroit and you are very correct. The place looks horrible, pretty much every where I looked.
Whew!
The locals were all watching you because they were concerned you were going to cut off their gas, or electricity, or water, or phone service, or cable TV service, or etc...
After 8 years of W doing the heavy digging.
This makes them the worst team in NFL history!
You really think the problem is the teachers?
Probably not a simple yes or no answer. Do you think a decent/competent teacher would work there? My guess is the literacy rate among the teachers probably isn’t 80%.
I feel sorry for the kids/students who are caught in a downward spiral. The question is how to break the cycle?
I'd like to see that nationwide. There would be some minor adjustments initially (*snicker*), but in the long run it would be very beneficial.
Yes because liberal writers never tell of the horrors of Detroit or East St Louis or Gary but instead paint the worst place in America to live in as Wasilla, Alaska.
When I lived briefly in Southfield, I had to drop a U-Haul off at 8 Mile, and I walked the 2 miles back. A guy I knew (who happened to be black) said "Are you crazy?".
Only the future will tell.
I survived Jimmy CArter (which I think will be the Zero model) and CLinton....even Nixon.
So, we hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
I hope you have a good new year!
No, not excusing the teachers. I’m sure there are a lot of poor teachers. I do have to hand it to them though. They work in a very unsafe, crazy environment. I wouldn’t work in any school in Detroit.
Exactly, Detriot is a town that “thinks Black” as it were, everything is viewed through a racial lense, anything that even remotely threatens that view is rejected out of hand.
Run, don’t walk, run away from Detriot.
“They work in a very unsafe, crazy environment. I wouldn’t work in any school in Detroit.”
Ditto. But Detroit is our future if we don’t get a handle on this liberalism that pervades virtually every dimension of our society. Our national choice of Obama bodes ill.
“Joe America” has literally no idea what Detriot is all about, or what it is like on the ground there.
Interesting article. Thank you.
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